Loch Achnamoine is a small
mountain loch, situated on the River Helmsdale in the
Highland
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...
council area of
Scotland. The nearest settlement to it is
Kinbrace
Kinbrace is a small village in Sutherland in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies at the junction of the A897 and B871 and is from Helmsdale by road. The village has a station on the Far North Line (also named Kinbrace). Few peopl ...
, a small village 2.5 miles (4 km) east, along a small country road.
The name derives from the
Scottish Gaelic elements ''"achadh"'' and ''"mòine"'', meaning "Lake of the Peat-field".
Loch Achnamoine is a ''drift dam'', formed from the last glacial period in Scotland. The loch was the site of several biological surveys in the 1990s, identifying several species of
xanthidium
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in its waters
[{{Cite book, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKAWAQAAIAAJ&q=loch+achnamoine, title=Archiv Für Hydrobiologie: Monographische Beiträge, date=1995, publisher=E. Schweizerbart, language=en]
References
Achnamoine